USA Today recently published a story discussing how many states are banning big trucks from specific lanes of highways:
Florida has already taken action, banning big trucks from the far left lane of Interstate 4 on a 60-mile stretch between Tampa and Orlando. Stretches of I-75 and I-95 elsewhere in Florida have similar restrictions. Elsewhere:
•Georgia, where truck traffic is likely to grow by more than 50% over the next 20 years, is considering truck-only toll lanes on parts of I-75 northwest of Atlanta and on a 20-mile stretch of the I-285 beltway that surrounds the city.
•Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are using a $5 million federal grant to study adding truck-only lanes on I-70 from Kansas City to Columbus, Ohio.
•California, Arizona, Texas and the Gulf Coast states will use a similar grant to study segregating truck and automobile traffic on stretches of I-10.
•Tennessee is eyeing truck-only lanes on I-40.
Lawyers USA has published a story about the “top ten jury verdicts of 2006”. The number ten slot is occupied by a Texas lawsuit in which actual damages of $38.5 million were awarded. It was an underride protection lawsuit in which the jury awarded $36 million to a 25 year-old woman who survived, and $2.5 million to the family of a woman who died. Here’s a 
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